Today as the Texas & Pacific was
about to pull out a city hack drove up to the station in a great
hurry and on the box of the hack beside the driver was Officer Pat
Dwyer.

As soon as the hack stopped the
policeman and the driver alighted and the driver pointed out a young
man as the one he had a complaint against, for having run off without
paying his bill for hack hire. The policeman went up to the young
fellow and told him the hackman’s trouble and told him he would
have to either dig up three dollars, which was the amount of the
bill, or go with him to the police station. The young man looked
thunder struck and asked what he meant. He didn’t owe the hack
driver any thing, he said, as he was an invited guest, using the
carriage in seeing the sights of El Paso and Juarez this morning, and
he knew nothing of the hack driver’s bill, and he wasn’t going to
dig up any three dollars.

After some argument between the men
Dwyer went to the telephone and rung up the police station and asked
if the chief was there. He was informed that he was not, so he came
out and told the fellow he would have to stay here another day and
settle the matter.

The young man asked the officer if he
had a warrant for his arrest and the officer didn’t have one. So
the young fellow told the officer that he had orders to take a squad
of men out on today’s train and he was going to take them.

The Herald reporter was on the scene
during the debate and after the heated part of the conversation was
over he asked Sergeant McMurry, for that was who the young man was,
what was the matter and he said: “When I was coming out here with
Major Jadwin I met an old man on the train who said he lived in El
Paso. His name was Col. Mike Brannigan, and when I got to El Paso he
would take pleasure in showing me around. From his talk I thought
that he was a wealthy man and owned a livery stable or something of
the kind and so when I arrived in El Paso the other day I met the
colonel and yesterday he asked me if I didn’t want to go around in
a carriage and see the city. Of course I did, but was too busy
yesterday afternoon, so this morning, about ten o’clock I guess,
the proffered carriage came around to the Hotel Pierson and this man
was driving it. The colonel was not in the carriage, but I thought
that he was too busy and had just sent a carriage for my disposal, so
of course, I took the ride and there you have the whole story.”

The hack driver said, “Mike
Brannigan came to me and told me that there was a load for me at the
Pierson to ride over town so I went up there and this young fellow
got in the carriage and used it all the morning.”

A man who was going off on the train
told the policeman if he didn’t have a warrant for the arrest of
that man he had better not take him off the train as it might give
him trouble. At one point in the conversation the hack driver offered
to compromise the bill and take two dollars, but the young man said,
“No, I don’t owe you a cent.”